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Synonyms for flaming
Noun
- 1. fire, flame, flaming, combustion, burning
- usage: the process of combustion of inflammable materials producing heat and light and (often) smoke; "fire was one of our ancestors' first discoveries"
Verb
- 1. flare, flame, shine, beam, flame up
- usage: shine with a sudden light; "The night sky flared with the massive bombardment"
- 2. flame, burn, combust
- usage: be in flames or aflame; "The sky seemed to flame in the Hawaiian sunset"
- 3. flame, chastise, castigate, objurgate, chasten, correct
- usage: criticize harshly, on the e-mail
Adjective
- 1. ablaze, flaming, colorful (vs. colorless), colourful
- usage: resembling flame in brilliance or color; "maple trees ablaze in autumn"; "flaming autumn leaves"
- 2. ablaze(predicate), afire(predicate), aflame(predicate), aflare(predicate), alight(predicate), blazing, burning, flaming, on fire(predicate), lighted (vs. unlighted), lit
- usage: lighted up by or as by fire or flame; "forests set ablaze (or afire) by lightning"; "even the car's tires were aflame"; "a night aflare with fireworks"; "candles alight on the tables"; "blazing logs in the fireplace"; "a burning cigarette"; "a flaming crackling fire"; "houses on fire"
- 3. bally(prenominal), blinking(prenominal), bloody(prenominal), blooming(prenominal), crashing(prenominal), flaming(prenominal), fucking(prenominal), unmitigated (vs. mitigated)
- usage: (used of persons) informal intensifiers; "what a bally (or blinking) nuisance"; "a bloody fool"; "a crashing bore"; "you flaming idiot"
- 4. fiery, flaming, hot (vs. cold)
- usage: very intense; "a fiery temper"; "flaming passions"
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